We arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico on a Wednesday afternoon. Immediately after checking in, the air in our hotel room was saturated with a fine mist of SPF 50. Suitcases were ransacked, searching for […]
Tag: family
rejection
The parallel between perimenopause and puberty – rejection.
When Life Gives You an inch, how do you take a mile?
Guest Blog Post with Detroit Free Press Marathon, Race Ambassador 2019-2021 I didn’t start running until after I became a mother. I started running after my son was born in an effort to battle the […]
Clark street bridge
Hope wakes me up. Hope is what props me up in bed. Hope is what leads me to meet my mother in the kitchen for coffee, met only by the dim illumination above the stove. […]
the toil of a middday movie
It is not customary for us to indulge in a midday movie, but it was the last day of vacation and following a rather busy family weekend, we finally had some time to enjoy something […]
family over everything
Whenever I feel them closing in on me
Or need a bit of room to move
When life becomes too fast, I find relief at last
Out in the country (or up north)